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	Polish parliamentary election, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Polish parliamentary election in 1997 to the Sejm and Senate of Poland was held on the 21st September.
		In the Sejm elections, 47.93% of citizens cast their votes, 96.12% of which were counted as valid.
		The election was won by the right-wing party of Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polish_parliamentary_election,_1997 (125 words)

	Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism And Racism
		In early 1998 the Polish parliament initiated legislation to restore Polish citizenship to thousands of Jews who left Poland in the late 1960s as a result of the anti-Semitic campaign of the communists, in which Jews served as scapegoats for the regime's social and economic failures.
		In 1997 the most publicized case was that of the priest Henryk Jankowski, known for anti-Semitic remarks he made in 1995.
		It should be noted that the Polish media promptly condemned Jankowski, placing his remarks in the context of the ongoing debate on the nature of Polish-Jewish relations.
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw97-8/poland.html (1337 words)

	Poland and the European elections
		In the 2001 election, the PO obtained 12.7 percent of the votes cast.
		Polish farms receive only a fraction of the subsidies awarded to longstanding EU members, and must at the same time confront massive competition from the West.
		The previous Polish government, comprising Election Action Solidarity (AWS) and the Freedom Union (UW) under Jerzy Buzek, was punished by voters in the 2001 elections for its anti-social policies and a series of corruption scandals.
	wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/pold-j26.shtml (1619 words)

	POLISH NEWS - Straight from POLAND - September 2001. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The election of the LPR shows that a segment of the electorate feels a sovereign, Catholic Poland need not be run solely by ex-communists, liberals and Euro-enthusiasts.
		But the rule also was, that the right-wingers would usually lose elections to the leftists because the left wing would reap the effects of their predecessors' economic success and distribute its fruits.
		Although the election victory of the ex-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) in the September 23 elections appears to be a foregone conclusion, a recent poll showed that they may have to seek a coalition partner to create a cabinet.
	www.polishnews.com /fulltext/straight/2001/hotnews65_1.shtml (5822 words)

	Middle East Report Online: Paradox and Possibility in Iran's Presidential Election, by Arang Keshavarzian and Mohammad ...
		The prospect that the election would advance debates over political reform and democratization appeared weak, in the shadow of the self-described defeat of Iran's parliamentary reformist movement and the increasing skepticism of the disappointed citizenry that voting for reform-minded candidates will in fact democratize the regime.
		In the months leading up to the presidential election, the ninth such contest since the birth of the Islamic Republic in 1979, many observers expected that the conservative-engineered collapse of the reformist trend and the parallel decline of citizen support for the reformist camp would both continue.
		These overtures must be expanded and followed through after the election -- regardless of the results -- if voting in the presidential election is to be more than a rubber stamp for the status quo or a means of prolonging the painful deadlock of the past eight years.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero061705.html (2037 words)

	Poland in NATO: Overview
		They resulted in a decision to organize general elections for June 4, in which 35 percent of the Sejm members would be chosen through free elections and the rest from lists composed by the communist authorities, while all 100 members of the new Senate would be directly elected.
		In the 1993 elections, the SLD collected 20 percent of the vote, which was enough to enable it to form a coalition government with the Peasants.
		Polish, Czech and Hungarian membership in NATO also means the first ever alliance between these countries and the United States and Canada.
	www.polishworld.com /polemb/nato/overview.html (7982 words)

	Prospects for the Polish Economy in 1999-2000: SR, September 1999
		The PSL's poor showing in the 1997 parliamentary elections (losing two-thirds of its votes from the 1993 Parliamentary elections) cost the SLD its major coalition partner in the Sejm and the PSL's chair, former Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak, his party leadership position.
		These developments reflect the poverty of the Polish population (those who sold them immediately were in desperate need of cash) and the pernicious results of the Soviet-controlled education which kept the bulk of the population unaware of the modes of operation of modern society and economy.
		It is this paradox of a growing capitalist class side by side with a large disaffected minority that will provide the backdrop and the battleground for both the presidential election in the year 2000 and the parliamentary elections scheduled for just a year later.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/999/hunter.html (2102 words)

	Yugoslav Daily Survey, 97-07-21
		The daily "Telegraf" said Milosevic's election for Yugoslav President was important for the stabilization of the situation in the country and also for stability and peace in the Balkans and south-eastern Europe as a whole.
		The election of Milosevic, who has been Serbia's President for the past two mandates, was expected and shows the "triumph of the 56-year-old politician," the commentators say.
		The election of Slobodan Milosevic as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is highlighted in French media on Wednesday.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/yds/1997/97-07-21.yds.html (4253 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		After the parliamentary elections in September 1993, even with a distinct majority coalition, it was impossible to corral the president within the boundaries inscribed in the Little Constitution.
		According to general parliamentary principles, the prime minister is responsible to the Sejm for his counter-signatures, but it is important to remember that this responsibility can be exercised only in the process of a “constructive vote of no confidence” (Art.
		With the 1997 Constitution, the independence of the Sejm is even more pronounced, since the president has lost the power (in the Little Constitution) to review the nominations for the internal affairs, foreign affairs, and national defense ministries.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num2/feature/presidency.html (5364 words)

	Penitence and Prejudice: The Roman Catholic Church and Jedwabne - Laurence Weinbaum
		The standing of the Church in Polish society was also elevated by the election of the charismatic Krakow Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to the Papacy, which he used as a springboard for an unremitting assault on the Communist regime.
		The slaughter at Jedwabne and neighboring communities was clearly well beyond the scope of the 1995 declaration of the Polish Episcopate Commission for Dialogue with Judaism issued on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkeanu.
		In the autumn of 1997, after a string of inflammatory utterances against Jews, including the suggestion that Jews could not be tolerated in government and the declaration that "the Polish people, humiliated by this minority have become the laughing stock of the international community" Archbishop of Gdansk Tadeusz Goclowski issued a warning to Father Jankowski.
	www.jcpa.org /phas/phas-weinbaum-f02.htm (8911 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Republic of Belarus:Human Rights Developments
		In the run-up to parliamentary elections the government intensified its crackdown on the opposition, which struggled to remain unified in calling for a boycott.
		On September 22, the Election Commission released a list of the 574 candidates registered to run in the elections; most of the opposition candidates were refused registration.
		Belarusian authorities declared the elections a success, with overall turnout 60.6 percent, but the opposition claimed widespread election violations and an actual turnout of 45 percent, and thus a successful opposition boycott.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k1/europe/belarus.html (960 words)

	CNN - Turnout strong for Poland's parliamentary election - Sept. 21, 1997
		CNN - Turnout strong for Poland's parliamentary election - Sept. 21, 1997
		The vote marks the third free parliamentary election since the fall of Communism in 1989, and the first following a full four-year parliamentary term.
		The ex-Communists, reborn as free-market social democrats, swept to power in 1993 elections and have continued many of the same reforms established by the previous, Solidarity-led parliament.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9709/21/poland.elex (563 words)

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		However, due to the League of Nations mediation and the boycott of the voting, the elections are postponed.
		Elections, boycotted by pro-Lithuanian forces, lead to the participation of parties that are more or less supporting idea of incorporation of the area into Poland - with different grades of autonomy.
		Though he allows presidential and parliamentary elections, his regime is essentially an authoriarian one.
	www.electionworld.org /former.htm (8441 words)

	Education World® - *Social Sciences : Political Science : World Government : Eastern Europe : Poland
		Constitution of Poland - 2 April 1997 Polish-language text of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland as passed by a joint session of the Sejm and Senat on 2 April 1997.
		Elections in Poland Gain an understanding of the Polish electoral system and browse presidential and parliamentary election results.
		Poland Election Results Presents a chart of the voters' tally for the Polish presidential and parliamentary elections from 1991 onward.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=4212 (368 words)

	Editorial: Change in course / The Polish election moves the country to the right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Another was the very visible election eve visit to the United States of Lech Walesa, of fame from his leadership of Solidarity, the roots of the Law and Justice and Civic Platform parties.
		In the sense that the new center-right Polish government is likely to be more sympathetic to American interests than the defeated Democratic Left Alliance, which received only 11 percent of the vote, there could be some payout for the United States.
		The other disquieting element in these elections, the fifth since the fall of communism in 1989, is that voter turnout was only 41 percent, attributed to disillusionment with the high level of corruption in the country.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05271/578747.stm (494 words)

	Research
		The EU Accession Referendum and the 2004 European Parliament Elections in Poland, NCEEER, 2003-2005
		The 2000 Presidential Elections in Poland, Washington and Lee University, 1999-2001
		The 1993 Parliamentary Elections in Poland, Institute of Political Studies, PAS, 1993
	home.wlu.edu /~jasiewiczk/research.htm (221 words)

	Poland
		In February 1997 Jankowski failed to appear at the Gdansk prosecutor's office: he explained during his Sunday sermon at St Brygida's Basilica in Gdansk that he had not received a copy of the experts' opinion on his statements which were the subject of the investigation.
		In March 1997 meetings convened by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council were held in Warsaw and Oswiecim concerning the implementation of the Auschwitz Programme, a scheme to preserve the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps while assisting the development of Oswiecim.
		In September 1997 a new Roman Catholic church of St Joseph was consecrated in the vicinity of the former Auschwitz concentration camp.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/poland/poland.htm (6553 words)

	NDI - National Democratic Institute
		Following the September 1997 parliamentary elections, the right-of-center Solidarity Election Action coalition and the centrist Freedom Union formed a governing coalition, deposing the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance and Polish Peasant's League.
		The Solidarity Election Action (AWS) and the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) won clear victories while the Social Alliance (PS) - a new coalition of the Polish Peasant Party, the Union of Labor and the National Pensioners' Party - emerged as the third strongest political power.
		In preparation for the October local elections, NDI provided training for party branches and candidates, as well as summer training camps for young activists from the Solidarity Election Action, Democratic Left Alliance, Freedom Union, the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland and the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.
	www.ndi.org /worldwide/cee/poland/poland.asp (791 words)

	Polish parliamentary election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parliamentary elections for both houses of the Parliament of Poland were held on September 25, 2005.
		At the 2001 elections, the SLD and UP won 216 of the 460 seats, and were able to form a government with the support of the Polish Peasant Party (PSL).
		The parties running in this election were mainly the same as in 2001, with the addition of SDPL (a splinter group from the SLD), and the Democratic Party formed from the Freedom Union (UW) and some SLD dissidents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polish_parliamentary_election,_2005 (1267 words)

	Polish American News
		Parliamentary elections are to be held next year and Russians will be picking a president in 2008.
		Polish conservative members of the European Parliament have horrified some of their colleagues with an exhibition in the European Parliament building in Brussels comparing abortion to the killing in Nazi concentration camps.
		BRUSSELS A Polish woman who was denied an abortion in Poland took her case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Tuesday, citing what she described as a rising tide of opposition against women's rights in Poland after a conservative government won election last year.
	www.polishkaleidoscope.com /polamnews.htm (8114 words)

	Middle East Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As the clock ticks towards Jordan's first parliamentary election since 1997, the country's key opposition party, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), is again threatening to boycott the June 17 vote.
		But in the run-up to Tuesday's election, leaders of the IAF, political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, are accusing the government of "undermining" the electoral process.
		Since 1997, the Islamists have been demanding a change to the election law that would allow candidates to stand on a party list rather than as individuals - to no avail.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=5979 (745 words)

	Worldandnation: World election briefs
		Walesa, who founded the small Christian Democracy of Poland party in 1997, acknowledged that his chances were negligible when he voted Sunday in Gdansk, birthplace of the Solidarity movement that toppled communism.
		LITHUANIAN ELECTIONS: A leftist coalition headed by a former communist leader made a strong showing in Lithuanian parliamentary elections, appearing to easily surpass the ruling Conservatives, according to partial voting results.
		FLEMISH ELECTIONS: Early results from Belgium's municipal and provincial elections Sunday showed a far-right bloc increasing its lead over mainstream parties in a major city and taking around 10 percent of the vote in the country's Dutch-speaking north.
	www.sptimes.com /News/100900/Worldandnation/World_election_briefs.shtml (550 words)

	Central Europe Review - Polish Election Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kwaśniewski became the first Polish president to be re-elected, and the first one to accomplish such an achievement without run-offs.
		His huge support came from both his personal assets and the way he ran the office: pragmatic and candid, he avoided conflicts, and established himself as a conciliatory element of political scene—which is one of the main functions for a president in Poland.
		Presidential elections, as it seems, put a sad end to the career of Lech Wałęsa, who received as little as 1.01 per cent of the vote.
	www.ce-review.org /00/35/kosc35.html (1313 words)

	POLAND: parliamentary elections Sejm, 1997
		Elections were held for all the seats of the Diet on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		The date of the 1997 elections was announced in June by President of the Republic Aleksander Kwasniewski.
		Given the overall election outcome, Prime Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz (SLD) was replaced by Mr.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2255_97.htm (371 words)

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		A couple of years ago, in 1997, Marian Krzaklewski, the leader of AWS, a center-right political party today, said this in a parliamentary debate over the new Polish Constitution, and I quote: "National compromise would be possible if everyone would recognize that there are facts of Polish history, which are not open to interpretation.
		And this war, this Polish cold civil war started undoubtedly with the fact that, with the assistance of foreign troops, a regime got installed in Poland, whose basis was legitimized by a foreign power.
		For the West and also for many members of the Polish community abroad who were looking at the socialist camp from a distance, everything looked all the same, but to many Poles living in Poland, the difference between our situation and the situation in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, or Romania, was tremendous.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/PolishRoundTable/rtsession2c.html (11146 words)

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